FROM SELF TO OTHER: ESOTERICISM AS DISCOURSE OF ...

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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies • Vol. 4 (53) No.1 - 2011 FROM SELF TO OTHER: ESOTERICISM AS DISCOURSE OF ALTERITY IN JEAN RHYS'S WIDE SARGASSO SEA Cristina-Georgiana VOICU1 Abstract: The paper attempts to show how esotericism is developed into a symbolic discourse of alterity of an increasing distance between imagination and reality in Wide Sargasso Sea. Particular levels of meaning will be discussed with respect to the theory of metaphors and symbols.

• alterity
• esotericism
• caribbean topos
• language of culture
• master narratives
• marginality
• discourse
• religion
• magic
• culture